tdubz Posted March 28, 2011 Report Share Posted March 28, 2011 more video advice needed i have got myself a hd camcorder capable of doing 1080 and 720 it outputs the video files as .mov i would like a recommendation of a simple to use editing suite that will keep my HD quality and allow me to join clips a bit of text maybe and some music behind them and maybe a bit of slo mo thats all i really want it to do it has to be easy to use i have sony vegas 9 and firstly it doesnt like the .mov files and secondly i dont have the hours to learn to use it well tried various codec converters with a view to doing my ediiting in windows movie maker but the quality came out definatly below par i am open to suggestions regarding both how i can get round the .mov problem but still keep good quality (maybe what settings to encode to) and also what software for editing and encoding whichever applies thanks for the advice in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Mallinson Posted March 28, 2011 Report Share Posted March 28, 2011 (edited) Adobe Premier is great, easy to use and there are lots of tutorials on youtube. Edit: It crashed on me the other day when I forgot to save, its still good though Edited March 30, 2011 by Milo123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksnell95 Posted March 28, 2011 Report Share Posted March 28, 2011 your best bet would be to youtube it and i edit videos on vegas and its not a hard program to get around once u have done a little bit of editing pm me if you need some help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdubz Posted March 30, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2011 one of the problems with vegas is it doesnt like the .mov format very much either anybody know of any good converters to use to keep good formatting prehaps to encode to mp4 or what other format is good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Scarlet Posted March 30, 2011 Report Share Posted March 30, 2011 Sony Vegas is fine with *.mov files, but you must remember that *.mov is only a container format, so one *.mov will be fine for Vegas, the other not good dependant on the file codec in the container. I'd try some different converting software and that should do the trick. In terms of editing with HD, it may depend on your computer set-up, I'm not sure what spec your computer is but usually to cope with HD rendering it requires quite a recent processor and at least 2gb of RAM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddbmxdude Posted March 31, 2011 Report Share Posted March 31, 2011 (edited) Vegas will cope with *.MOV files fine, as long as you have the right codecs installed. Download and install VLC player (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/) and FFDSHOW (http://www.free-codecs.com/download/ffdshow.htm) and it should be able to cope with pretty much anything you throw at it. I haven't come across a format I haven't been able to edit with this setup yet. Edit to say: Converting software is horrible, ruins the quality of your raw footage and just bloats your computer. Avoid at all costs, far better to use the right codecs instead. Hope that helps Edited March 31, 2011 by eddbmxdude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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